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From: duchier@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier)
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Subject: Re: looking for \everyline facilities
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Date: 9 Aug 90 18:38:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: sean@aipna.ed.ac.uk's message of 9 Aug 90 11:44:50 GMT

In article <2718@aipna.ed.ac.uk> sean@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Sean Matthews) writes:
 >   2: for some styles of quotation (not in English) there are
 >      running quotation marks down the side of the paragraph, as in
 >
 >	  `Statistics show that only 7.43 of 10 people who read this
 >	  `manual actually  type the story.tex  file as recommended,
 >	  `but that those people  learn TeX best.   So Why don't you
 >	  `join them.'

You can approximate this functionality as follows:

\parindent=0pt
\newbox\foo \setbox\foo\hbox{`}
\everypar{\copy\foo}
\def\baz{\discretionary{}{\copy\foo\kern-3.33pt}{}%
  \penalty10000 \hskip3.33pt plus1.66pt minus1.11pt}
\catcode`\^^M=13\let^^M=\baz\catcode`\ =13\let =\baz%
...<Your Text (with approriate precautions)>...

--Denys